Jama Connect® Features in Five: Surgical Robotics Framework
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Jama Connect Features in Five: Surgical Robotics Framework
In this Features in Five session, Máté Hársing – Senior Solutions Architect, explores how Jama Connect’s Surgical Robotics Framework empowers teams to manage the complexity of developing cutting-edge surgical robotic systems while maintaining compliance and accelerating innovation.
Key highlights include:
- Purpose-built framework for surgical robotics, providing structured views, variant and release management, and end-to-end traceability.
- Centralized platform for managing user needs, system and subsystem requirements, risks, and verification with seamless navigation and visibility.
- Controlled reuse capabilities to manage libraries, variants, and generations, ensuring efficiency without duplication.
- Release and generation management tools to baseline requirements for regulatory submissions while enabling innovation for future product generations.
With Jama Connect, surgical robotics teams can streamline development, reduce errors, and bring innovative products to market faster—all while staying audit-ready and compliant.
Watch this Feature in Five video to discover how Jama Connect transforms surgical robotics development.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BELOW
Introduction to Surgical Robotics Challenges
Hello, I’m Máté Hársing, a Senior Solutions Architect at Jama Software. Surgical Robotic systems are among the most complex medical devices today, combining hardware, software, AI, and strict regulatory demands across multiple generations. In this Features in Five video, I’ll show how Jama Software’s surgical robotics framework helps teams manage that complexity through structured views, variant and release management and end-to-end traceability without sacrificing compliance. Let’s start with the challenges surgical robotics teams face.
Understanding System Complexity
First, system complexity. Multiple subsystems, robotic arms, vision systems, control software, and user interfaces, each developed by different teams but tightly coupled. Second, reuse at scale. Many organizations don’t build just one robot. They build platforms, derivatives, and next-generation systems.
Copying requirements or test cases quickly and manually leads to confusion and risk. Different instruments, markets, and clinical use cases introduce variability that must be controlled, not duplicated. Release and generation management teams need to freeze baselines for regulatory submissions while continuing innovation for the next release or product generation.
Traditional documents and disconnected tools simply don’t scale to this level of complexity.
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Introducing Jama Connect Framework
This is where Jama Connect and the surgical robotics framework come in. The framework provides a pre-structured data model aligned to robotic systems engineering covering user needs, system and subsystem requirements, risks, validation, and verification. On top of that structure, Jama Connect enables controlled reuse in three powerful ways. Libraries to centrally manage shared and reusable assets, variants to model differences without duplicating data, release and generation management using baselines and reuse patterns to support regulatory submissions and future innovation. Together, these capabilities allow teams to scale development without losing control, traceability, or compliance.
Overview of Product Management Scale
Before we look at any libraries, variants, or generations, it’s important to understand the scale of the product we’re managing.
This demo dataset, based on the surgical robotic platform, consists of ten systems: robotic arms, vision, control software, imaging, and safety, broken down into thirty subsystems.
All this lives in a single Jama Connect project organized neatly in the project explorer tree. The project structure mirrors the system architecture, making it easy to navigate from high-level user needs all the way down to detailed subsystem requirements, risks, and verification, without jumping between tools or documents. Despite the complexity, teams can quickly find what they need, understand ownership, and see how everything connects.
Utilizing Hazards Library for Reusability
Here, we use a Hazards Library project to manage reusable content.
These assets are created once and reused across multiple surgical robot programs and generations. When a library item changes, Jama Connect highlights the impact on locations where it’s being reused, allowing teams to review and selectively accept updates, maintaining control while avoiding duplication.
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Managing Variants with Controlled Reuse
Many organizations manage parallel surgical robot variants that have the same core skeleton of requirements, tests, and risks, but differ in various specific aspects. Using reuse and synchronization, teams can share a common baseline while clearly seeing what’s different in each variant. Jama Connect highlights the delta, what’s been added, changed, or removed, so teams can focus only on what matters. And when needed, changes can be synced in either direction from the core platform to a variant or from a variant back to the platform, always with full visibility and control.
Release and Generation Management Process
Let’s look at release and generation management. For each regulatory submission or product release, we baseline the full set of requirements, risks, and verification. That baseline becomes our approved auditable snapshot. From there, we can reuse that baseline or duplicate and synchronize the entire project to start the next release or product generation, building on what’s already validated while clearly tracking what’s new or changed. This allows teams to move fast without losing control or compliance.
Conclusion and Call to Action
With Jama Software’s surgical robotics framework, teams can handle system complexity with structured end-to-end traceability, reuse safely through governed libraries and variant management, manage multiple releases and generations without chaos, and accelerate development while staying audit-ready and compliant. The result is faster innovation, fewer errors, and greater confidence in both your product and your process. That is a quick look at how Jama Connect helps surgical robotics teams manage complexity through smart views. To learn more about the surgical robotics framework or request a personalized demonstration for your team, visit jamasoftware.com or reach out to your Jama Software customer success manager or solution consultant. Thank you.
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Solutions Architect at Jama Software
With years of experience as an ALM consultant, Máté has a broad skill set that includes presales demonstrations, proof of concepts (POCs), implementations, and consulting. He has successfully conducted training both on-site and remotely, providing clients with expert advice.
Máté specializes in industries such as medical devices, avionics, and automotive, collaborating closely with clients to understand their challenges and deliver customized solutions. His passion for advanced IT consulting drives him to develop innovative strategies that enhance customer satisfaction.
Máté specializes in industries such as medical devices, avionics, and automotive, collaborating closely with clients to understand their challenges and deliver customized solutions. His passion for advanced IT consulting drives him to develop innovative strategies that enhance customer satisfaction.
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